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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If you love doc formatting, PDFs made for the 6" screen are best. (And if you only love doc formatting a little bit, making PDFs of your favorites is fun.) Otherwise, ePub is most readable. LRF is likely to become a legacy format soon, and it doesn't allow the options that ePub does. But if right-justification is crucial to you, LRF is best for now.
RTF is "good" only in the sense that it's *fast*: I can copy the contents of a webpage into Word, raise the base font to 17pts, and throw it on the Reader in seconds; everything else takes considerably longer, which I don't always have time/energy for. But that's very much "I just want to read this; I don't really care what it looks like (but I need to keep the italics and author metadata)".
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I will put in my vote for PDF. For me, the biggest advantage of PDF for ebooks is that it allows me to have complete control over my ebook's formatting.
No matter how elaborate the formatting, when rendered as a PDF the ebook displays perfectly on my ebook reader. This includes justification (ragged left, ragged right, centered, and full), multiple typefaces (I usually include at least three different typefaces in my ebooks) generating and inserting a table of contents complete with accurate page numbers, widow/orphan control, and graphics.
The only other ebook format I've made significant use of on my reader is RTF. With RTF, my biggest problem I've had is trying to get it to consistently display the general typeface I want (serif, san-serif, or monospaced). This problem is what caused me to choose PDF as the format for my ebooks.